Title: Parse error: syntax error
Last modified: February 21, 2019

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# Parse error: syntax error

 *  Resolved [vespino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vespino/)
 * (@vespino)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-164/)
 * I’m still getting this error when activating the latest release of
    Mollie Payments
   for WooCommerce:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘, expecting ‘)’ in /var/www/vhosts/***.**/
   httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/mollie-payments-for-woocommerce/includes/mollie-api-
   php/vendor/guzzlehttp/promises/src/functions.php on line 45
 * I have already upgraded to PHP7.3 because I thought this might be caused by new
   style array ( [] instead of array() ) but after changing all [] to array() there
   still was an error.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [davdebcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davdebcom/)
 * (@davdebcom)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-164/#post-11232973)
 * This is an error in Guzzle, a library we include but don’t develop ourselves.
   I’ll do a further research now.
 *  Plugin Contributor [davdebcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davdebcom/)
 * (@davdebcom)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-164/#post-11233009)
 * Upgrading PHP should fix this issue, is it possible you didn’t restart the server
   after upgrading?
 * What does the PHP version say in WooCommerce > Status > System Status
 *  Thread Starter [vespino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vespino/)
 * (@vespino)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-164/#post-11233076)
 * Thanks for waking me up. Apparently changing the php version did not stick and
   it reverted back to the older version. I will look into this again first veryfying
   the php change worked.
 * Thanks again.
 *  Plugin Contributor [davdebcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davdebcom/)
 * (@davdebcom)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-164/#post-11233085)
 * Not a problem!

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 * Last reply from: [davdebcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davdebcom/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-164/#post-11233085)
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